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Marco Casagrande: Nomad City - Aurora Observatory

2012

‘Nomad City – Aurora Observatory‘ was a two week workshop organized by Finnish architect Marco Casagrande held on top of the frozen lake Røssvatnet in the Scandinavian mountains near Mo i Rana in Norway. The collaboration brought together a cross-disciplinary mix of environmental art, architecture, sociology students and professors from the environmental art masters class of the Aalto University in Finland, from Lund University department of sustainable urban design in Sweden, from Madrid the European University department of architecture, from Bauhaus University department of fine arts in Germany and from Université Libre de Bruxelles faculté d’architecture La Cambre–Horta in Belgium.


The 19 nationalities came together to create a mobile city for nomads that respect and are humbled by nature. The students were given a task to make a personal fishing shelter and collectively to build two communal focal points: a movable ‘nomad sauna’ on skis and an ‘aurora observatory’.

(Text from www.designboom.com <---- more information and pictures)